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WE LEARNED ANYTHING FROM KATRINA? Alliance
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PROFILES Arthur Beale is Chair Emeritus of Conservation and Collections Management at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. His career as a conservator spans forty years since his education at Brandeis and Boston Universities. He received his apprentice training in conservation at Harvard's Fogg Art Museum where he worked for twenty years, becoming Director of the Center for Conservation and Technical Studies (now the Straus Center for Conservation). He was also Senior Lecturer on Fine Arts at Harvard and helped develop the formal post-graduate training programs at the Harvard University Art Museums and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Mr. Beale was founding Chairman of the Board and Council of the National Institute for Conservation (now Heritage Preservation). He is a Fellow of both the International and American Institutes for Conservation. He held a Presidential appointment to the National Museum Services Board for six years until 1995. In that same year, Mr. Beale was named the first recipient of the University Products, Inc., award for distinguished achievement in the field of conservation. He has lectured widely and published on a variety of subjects including the preservation of outdoor statuary, the technical and authentication examination of objects, and environmental control methods.
Bernard Margolis became
the first president of the nation’s first public library system in
1997. In his post, Mr. Margolis oversees the operation of the sixth
largest library system in the country, which consists of the Research
Library and the Central Library in Copley Square, the Edward Kirstein
Business Library in the downtown business district, and 27 branch
libraries located throughout Boston’s neighborhoods. With a collection
of over 32 million items, the BPL is the largest public research library
in New England. Before coming to Boston, Mr. Margolis served as the
director of Colorado’s Pikes Peak Library District, director of
Michigan’s Monroe County Library System, director of the Southeast
Michigan Regional Film Library, and director of Southern Michigan’s
Raisin Valley Library System. Mr. Margolis is serving his fourth elected
term on the Governing Council of the 63,000-member American Library
Association (ALA), and has served in a variety of Association positions.
His many awards include “Colorado Librarian of the Year,” two John
Cotton Dana library public relations awards, and the Kennedy Center for
the Performing Arts’ “Award of Excellence” for his
library-sponsored “Imagination Celebration.” Mr. Margolis received
an M.A. in Librarianship and a B.S. in Political Science from the
University of Denver. Sara
Wolf
is Director of the Northeast Museum Services Center of the National Park
Service. The Center provides technical support to museum
collections in parks from Maine to southern Virginia. Ms. Wolf
joined the Park Service in 2000 after a 24-year career as a museum
conservator working at The Textile Museum, the National Museum of
Natural History (Smithsonian), the Texas Memorial Museum, and the
national museum of Fiji. She is a Fellow of the American Institute for
Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works and has twice received
Fulbright research fellowships. Ms. Wolf was a first responder to
hurricane Isabel in 2003 and has formed a Cultural Resources Emergency
Response Team for response to disasters in the National Park Service.
She was the first cultural resources specialist to be included as part
of the Type I, National Incident Management Team for response to
hurricane Katrina.
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